I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
FIDEL CASTROI don’t think that the contradictions between capitalism and socialism can be resolved by war. This is no longer the age of the bow and arrow. It’s the nuclear age, and war can annihilate us all. The only way to achieve solutions seems to be for the different social systems to coexist.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
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The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
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U.S. leaders should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe.
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Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.
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The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry but they cannot kill ignorance, illnesses, poverty or hunger.
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On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.
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Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.
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I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country. This is not a personal matter. We are not people driven by a wish to be in the government since it is for us the least attractive work, even though we are politicians.
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I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.
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I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
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We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills more men, women and children by hunger and preventable or curable diseases than the death toll in six years of the second world war.
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If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
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The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.
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I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.
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Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet.
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